Melanocortin pathway: Animal models of obesity and disease

Annales d'Endocrinologie

Volumn 63, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 121-124

  Marks, D L ^a   Butler, A A ^a   Cone, R D ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; BODY WEIGHT; CACHEXIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE LOCUS; HYPOPHAGIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; THERMOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CACHEXIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; OBESITY;

EID: 0036100090     PISSN: 00034266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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